FinOps Data & Reporting Analyst

Job Title: FinOps Data & Reporting Analyst
Location: Sheffield
Salary/Rate: £297 per day inside IR35
Start Date: August 2025
Job Type: 5 month Contract

The ideal candidate will be in partnership with the Chief Technology Office to proactively provide insights regarding rightsizing opportunities across Datacentre and End User technologies, thus allowing internal customers/business functions to reduce their utilisation and spend on technology infrastructure.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
1. Supporting the analysis, planning and execution of optimisation/rightsizing tactics, working with business aligned IT functions to optimise their on-premise infrastructure (eg Servers, storage, database, Mainframe, PC's) consumption and spend.
2. Tracking benefits achieved through rightsizing, including direct cost impacts, reduced datacentre space, power and carbon needs, and the re-use of relinguished assets (thus deferring additional spend).
3. Provision of presentation materials relating to technology usage, charges and optimisation opportunities, comprising data sourced from internal billing systems, infrastructure inventories and utilisation reporting.

Required Skills/Experience
1. Strong analytical background with the ability to proactively create, interrogate, interpret and draw conclusions/next steps from IT financial data, and present in an easy to consume way.
2. Excel data analysis, SQL, Power BI, data mapping
3. Experience with charting and other data visualisation techniques, highly quality Powerpoint is a must.
4. Understanding of IT services, financial management processes and best practices such as budgeting, cost allocations, and recharges for infrastructure services.
5. Working knowledge of IT infrastructure domains including data centres, network/communications, server utilisation, virtual environments and storage (likely from working within an IT infrastructure function).

Desirable Skills/Experience
1. Knowledge of IT Financial Management (ITFM), Technology Business Management (TBM) and/or FinOps principles.
2. Awareness of ApptioOne or similar IT cost management solution.
3. ITIL or Service Management background.
4. Logical data mapping experience and use of SQL queries would be desirable.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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